NEW JERSEY's green Shipping Line (GSL) is proposing that a fleet of feeder ships be built to transport wind turbine components from US Atlantic coast ports to new Atlantic coast wind farms, according to GSL chairman and CEO Percy Pyne.
Mr Pyne told the American Journal of Transportation that GSL's plan is to deploy a Jones Act-compliant feeder to transport components to wind turbine installation vessels (WTIV).
The feeder will deliver the components to a WTIV that will install the wind turbines on the ocean floor: 'The wind turbine installation vessel is very expensive and operates at a daily rate of between US$100,000 to $200,000 per day.'
The feeder vessel, he said, can reduce the costs of installation by supplying the installation vessel so that it doesn't have to return to port to pick up new components, it just loads them off the feeder.'
Two wind farms will soon be built, including one off the coast of Massachusetts and another off the coast of Virginia with other Atlantic coast wind farms to follow, he said.
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Mr Pyne told the American Journal of Transportation that GSL's plan is to deploy a Jones Act-compliant feeder to transport components to wind turbine installation vessels (WTIV).
The feeder will deliver the components to a WTIV that will install the wind turbines on the ocean floor: 'The wind turbine installation vessel is very expensive and operates at a daily rate of between US$100,000 to $200,000 per day.'
The feeder vessel, he said, can reduce the costs of installation by supplying the installation vessel so that it doesn't have to return to port to pick up new components, it just loads them off the feeder.'
Two wind farms will soon be built, including one off the coast of Massachusetts and another off the coast of Virginia with other Atlantic coast wind farms to follow, he said.
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